Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
ALAN BERSINIn the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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